Identifying young gifted children using the gifted rating scales-preschool/ kindergarten form

Gifted Child Quarterly

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-29

  Pfeiffer, Steven I ^a   Petscher, Yaacov ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gifted identification; Gifted rating scales; GRS; Preschool gifted

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449164163     PISSN: 00169862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0016986207311055     Document Type: Article

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